[Open-access] Well, this is unexpected! - re human right

Tue Feb 28 14:52:15 UTC 2012

On Tue, Feb 28, 2012 at 12:36 PM, Iryna Kuchma <iryna.kuchma at eifl.net>wrote:

> Dear Peter and all,
>
> Last year the Civil Society Section, Office of the United Nations High
> Commissioner for Human Rights, UN expert on cultural rights, organized
> public consultation on the right to enjoy benefits of scientific progress
> and its applications:
> http://www.ohchr.org/EN/Issues/CulturalRights/Pages/Consultation7December2011.aspx.
> Question 5 was OA related: *What legal, administrative, policy or other
> measures have been adopted/are under consideration to eliminate barriers to
> scientific communication and collaboration, such as censorship,
> restrictions on access to the Internet or on free availability of
> scientific literature and journals*? And now the Independent Expert in
> the field of cultural rights, Ms. Farida Shaheed, prepares annual report
> “The right to enjoy the benefits of scientific progress and its
> applications” to the Human Rights Council, to be presented in June 2012.
> ieculturalrights at ohchr.org was a contact email to participate in the
> public consultation.
>
> Best wishes,
> Iryna
>
> Iryna Kuchma
> EIFL Open Access Programme Manager
> www.eifl.net
>

Iryna,
Thanks very much - this looks very powerful. What do we need to do and by
when?

>
> On 28 February 2012 02:06, Peter Murray-Rust <pm286 at cam.ac.uk> wrote:
>
>>
>> I agree that we need to force the positive. Some months ago I proposed
>> that access to the scientific literature should be a fundamental human
>> right:
>>
>> http://blogs.ch.cam.ac.uk/pmr/2011/09/30/access-to-scientific-publications-should-be-a-fundamental-right/
>> It's simple to understand, compelling and politically tractable.
>> Is there a chance that this would fly in Europe? I have been invited to a
>> meeting where Neelie Kroos will be present - we need a simple concept that
>> we should hammer.
>>
>> P.
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Peter Murray-Rust
>> Reader in Molecular Informatics
>> Unilever Centre, Dep. Of Chemistry
>> University of Cambridge
>> CB2 1EW, UK
>> +44-1223-763069
>>
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>

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Peter Murray-Rust
Reader in Molecular Informatics
Unilever Centre, Dep. Of Chemistry
University of Cambridge
CB2 1EW, UK
+44-1223-763069
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